Defense Ministry changes draft rules
The Ministry of Defense has developed new rules, according to which the military registration and enlistment offices will put on military records not only young people of military age registered at the place of residence, but also those actually living, i.e. without registration in a specific area, for which the military enlistment office is responsible. Thus, the military department plans, on the one hand, to cover up one of the main ways of evading military service, and on the other, to provide an opportunity to serve or enroll in a military university for those who cannot do this due to problems with registration.
As explained in the military department, at present, the personal military registration of citizens is kept "at their place of residence or place of stay (for a period of more than three months)", i.e. only registered citizens are registered. The new version of the provision is supplemented with the following wording: "including not confirmed by registration at the place of residence or place of stay." Military enlistment offices intend to collect information about young people who are not registered in a particular region through educational institutions and personnel departments of enterprises. Such conscripts will be registered "at the place indicated by citizens in the application as the place of their stay (study)."
- Oleg Zherdev, founder of the Russian association of lawyers of law enforcement agencies "Gvardia", commented on the new rule.
The innovation is expected to come into effect at the end of this year.
- Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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